Francisco Goldman has published five novels and two books of nonfiction. THE LONG NIGHT OF WHITE CHICKENS was awarded the American Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. His novels have been finalists for several prizes, including, twice, the Pen/Faulkner Prize. THE ORDINARY SEAMAN was a finalist for The International IMPAC Dublin literary award. THE DIVINE HUSBAND was a finalist for The Believer Book Award. THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. THE INTERIOR CIRCUIT: A Mexico City Chronicle, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times one of 10 best books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis “Premio Azul” 2017.  His novel SAY HER NAME won the 2011 Prix Femina étranger. His books have been published in 16 languages.

Francisco Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the NY Public Library, and a Berlin Fellow at the American Academy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a 2017 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize, was named a recipient of PENMexico’s 2017 Award for Journalistic and Literary Excellence, and was a 2018-19 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Believer and many other publications. He directs the Aura Estrada Prize (www.auraestrada.com.) Every year Goldman teaches one semester at Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., and then hightails it back to Mexico City.

Books by Francisco Goldman

Monkey Boy

by Francisco Goldman - Fiction

In MONKEY BOY, Francisco Goldman’s “brilliantly constructed auto-fiction” (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up as the son of immigrants --- a Guatemalan Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish father --- in a predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb. Told in an irresistibly funny, tender and passionate voice, this extraordinary portrait of family explores the pressures of living between worlds.

The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

by Francisco Goldman - Nonfiction

THE INTERIOR CIRCUIT is Francisco Goldman’s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico.

Say Her Name

by Francisco Goldman - Fiction

In a novel that possesses the immediacy and power of a memoir, Francisco Goldman recounts the story of his passionate, if improbable, love affair with a woman two decades his junior and of the nearly insurmountable grief that stalked him after its tragic conclusion.